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CEDARTOWN RECORD. IE W. S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors. •J CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1875. VOLUME II. NUMBER 20. TIMELY TOPICS. '1 in: completion of tlio Ohio legislature i* Anally settled. The republicans have a majority of flvo in the senate and nine teen in the house. The majority for Haves in the state is 0,007. Sain t’aicv "M beaten for lieutenaiit-governbr l»v about 12,000. Tut: influcn distemper among the throughout the country, and, though lijit to .be i.iiuparpd in severity to the epidemic of two years ago, it is still the cause of . loft iderahle We iK-gin, also, to hear of fatal re sults from the disease; and horse-breed ers repot the whole season unfavorable to the successful rearing of oolU from the fatal prevalence t»f the trouble among them. The used 1 of the big from tlieli A section California hie to Philadelphia, where it will far exhibited at the eentounial. It is Id feet loin;) with a diameter of 20 feet. It w as taken from u tree 2»t» feet high with a diameter at the base of i-d hv yearly r 2,1*0 v old. The > 1 her s hollo' which will he converted int> and elegantly fit Prof. Walk. ,d up. ,de fo. of the d expedition to ih. Illaek Hills, and 11 the hills and made thorough exam- of the whole eoantry, ami mapped lhdle l’oarehe to tile south fork of emu* river, lie reports a gold Held g forty miles north of Hardee’s Peak tv miles wide, that eotitain gold that from three to four dollars per day to bars that will puv r supplies ani- . and the fall suf- froin the topmost he readily disposed aid easily separated The professor has and there re than that Wa The gold : pnrpe 1 with 1 An ass M Etuis Times, in referring to the late visit of .lay (build, Sidney Dillon, < diver Ames and other railroad magnates, «avs the main object of their visit was to perfect arrangements to run throdflicnis from ben* to r»an Francisco via the M. Emis and Kan-us City ami Northern and l uion and Paeilie railroads without change, and ultimately from New York via New York Central through this city, they will support thousands It is further said that this project is »ho government open* them tics tine* I to forestall the action of the 11,0 vnl,,, . vs im ' al1 ''dupt.-d national railroad convention to be held i Mml ! " ul ,4 ' M ‘"' k ruW,, l& | Rainfall plentiful. Ills nfltVlal report will | made from Nt w York, probithly before eon- Ml lilje 1 ninth, the Sout which ]|Ul Til Eli I'm He railroad projt ct! ng friend* hen-. 1 he run ns I It is said that fully .1,000,000 cubic yards of levees will lie needed for the Mississippi river alone, the coating season to say nothing I the Ateliitfiil- eat |Niwera of western Kuro|tc Alexander II. Stephens, linvo exerted their combined influence to I seriously ill, is now out of dm smother the Servian rcMIion and pro- The lialtimoro and (>! lecl the dominion of the Turk a little ani * Missi»ti|*|»i railroads will longer. It is easy to imagine how the C/ar smiles in his sleeve at their jeal- s»li-v and the secret intrigues it leads to in order to prevent Kussiu from getting a foothofd on the Mediterranean, espec ially n*v very year nho is ext. tuliug her empire to (.Yntrul Asia and throwing the net of her diplomacy down towards the ocean and Persian Gulf. These flank movements art of vast, importance, and if eoiitiimo^u «|unrter of a century will make it of very;little moment wlu»t the great lowers gay. THcro.lft'liUlo use in defending the front door When the-fronoy has captured all tlm rest of tfichotiBO. Wi: are indebted, say* the New Orleans Times, to the state registrar of Emisinnu for an advance copy of a tablo showing the population of Louisiana, according to I Mtalo ceii.su, of 187T». We present the totals Mow, comparing them with the figures of the 1'uited Statescciurosof 1800 and 1870. They show a very large in crease during the five years, hut Itismu- fmed chiefly to the rural parishes, that.if < Menu*, 00mprising the city of Now Or leans, Ijoirig only 12 021: 1 Methodist of the WHltlic sed t.-n th.msiiml dollars for miument ehtirch, Havaaiiiih, Dr. Clark' church, has 1 the AVol. y Georgia, by Ills tour north. A field of 00,000 acres is the property of a gentleiimn in Nii.-cch county, T-cxiim, and In: reeeiitiy tilled an order by telegraph for 20,1X10 hoove*. The interest in narrow-gauge railroads Ts being revived. We learn that It Is pro pose.I (4) Imild 11 narrow-gauge road from isippi r mill I'r The following 1 from Memphis I860. |.s:n. l'Vil7 :wV,210 Phiiioienml India Total Total.. 1 liosmn an.l Boston poiuln, *>7 ecu 1 Col. .lack < ocke, who was terrible enuountcr with It. Melle I utohia, Mins.. ,md kilfrd Mellei { knife nfn-r being shot, died last hi*wounds. Me w«n n prosperoti ; mill his Ions will lie deeply felt in j sissippi. ! At Renatobln, Miss., on the lflth, 11 I fiital sitSVny nraurml ii (-..Inm l .1. II j Cockn,n prominent no-reliant of that place, I mid II. M'Henry. Severn! •hots were fired by I lioth parties, M'll »i....... .. . mini i.i.um:iu in. Passenger fare lietwcen the east and west will go up above the old rates Nov. 1. A further advance in freight rates has been decided on hv (lie trunk lines between New York nail the " cst. The next class of Cnitod States bonds which will he called In for eimviir*|im and redemption, will he the 5-20's of lSii.’i. The amount outstanding is $102;C32,520. It is Kcmt-nflicially announced that an arrangement lias been made hv which the ladiaiuipoliN and Si. Louis and the Vanilntla railroads will p iss under one mmmgemeiit oil the 1st of Nov. The commissioner of internal revenue will iiistruet ollieers of the bureau not to seize rigors paekeil either ill paper or I in boxes for tin* present, where they may he salislieil that the taxes have been paid. He will recommend to congress In Ids iiiinual re port a modification of the law, so us to per mit the use of Hindi boxes. According to the hist census, there were in the United States seven cities with a united population exceeding three million two liunilml thousand, and fifty-three other cities e.ii li with n population of over twen ty live ihoitsinul; the whole number of per sons residing in towns exceeding twenty-five thousand inhabitants being nearly six mil lion two hundred thousand. That Is, nearly -i vteen per cent, of our population live in vhig i for the fiscal nopals of the all uding June i l‘res ideal 'rib Min- 171,. I. fit* shots j ing Col. (Vi - him almost rely, if not mortally wound- •ke. I’.doiicl ( »«ke Bu i stockholders of the Western Union telegraph company: Gross receipts from nil sources, except from Hide of bonds, $«>/,*! 1,57-1; gross expenses $tb, l ib. 11*. tin- difference $.’1,220,loll, being the net profit; all sums paid us rental for leased lines are included In the gross expenses. Compared with the preceeiling fiscal year, there was mi increase In the gross receipts of $■'101,020 and a decrease ill expense* of $120, 310, and mi ineveaM' in net profits of $722,- A statement of the receipts and ex- peiiilituri the post-oflieu department for the fiscal year ending June 20, |H75, Inis just been prepared for the aim mil report, from which we learn that the receipts amounted to $27,1*411..102 4)8 mid tlm expenditures to $33,. 011,300 15. the deficiency balance being $ii,- 0-10,804] 77. The bahiiieo-slieel prepared a n few days ago should have boon stated as expenses fin* mail service, instead of for the whole department. Railway mail service lias been ordered from Delano, by way of Bakers’ field, to (.'alieiite, Uiiliforniu, on IhuFoulheni Vaflflc railroad, HAV-foiir The |Kistmiwtor*gonerul 1ms directed, in oouipliaaiic wiLlt the rcqnr.'t of the postmaster lit St. Louis, that a ru-urraiigenieiit of tin* fast mail Herv ice between New York,SI. Loii!hand the southwest, ho made priorto the 1st pro*,, for all Ktieli mutter us nnlimdlv belongs to the I 1 vii ii lit mini, mill orders it to lie sent by that line, ItiHteiul of the New York central and lake shore. This will save the depart ment the expense of an iimn'i'essary long Haiti, and ensure quicker delivery of the mail between the east anil southwest, and points mi or near the line between St. lands and I’iit-hiirg, to which closed pouches ore soul. It will also prevent delays, now euused hv tin- lack of railway postal car service, between Pittsburg and 8t. Louis. Tin* director-gen eral of the I'l'iitcnnial has suggested to the .‘•ecritarv of the interior the propriety of pro viding for representation at the exhibition of those organ!Rations formed during the war, for the purpose of mitigating tlm sufferings of tlm nick ami wounded on the hiitlic-iiolih i::tt Miiji -, in a speech at. • P; ii., the other day, stated that in less ■ years a "nnrrow-gntige railroad" w built from < tiro to the Louisville aphis road. It would go where It might t Tin: return to the Pundnru from n nil-summer expedition to the arctic zoi with nothing disci*vend hut a war euriimt, n vessel of Hoff's expedith... , ,, .. , ,, tw-nly-fiv.! L .....li rirhZ’ I, **4tH stuck in the ice, and the headstones j lllfmt , lsH j aUllCe KIV ,. n . *'‘ r •h , h» Franklin’s buried „ r it might goto Me Keiule. u* n t L the Inst brief and uninteresting , Tlm committee on stali.-l account of a brief and ituroninn tic cruise j New Orleans cotton exchange in rather hackneyed was. Tlm Pandora n " elaborate statement, hearing ••xjKiJitiuji went within about 1,OOQ. mlien ' wid projpects of the *>f flip pole, or therealxiut, and readied '> f “ i tern longitude of the lied river ti"Atb'in.*nL pas-ning perhaps on the tt»y westward throiigli the eirritfv north of Victoria TifWu/'r the Fandom mm had tlie nor thorn l*et hv ice or fogs she could, compiiM of tlm gltHic, gh from Daflin's Ha mid Clcrk-s’ Wages in New York. There are now /ilt.OOO derkH in this e.ity, oni'-ti'iith of whom are out of em ployment. Those who are so fortunate as to retain their situations arc working Tlfo largest employer in iiariiiv he considered a favorable I from $-S0(» a good ileal of damage has been Hli'l ty rains, frost, alekaes* among labor- * H 1,1 ^i third of its, ele. Still the erop.it L thought Will be mi [J mv * 11 it i.' the j' s Stewart, whom! pay-roll, in Isitli " ' conlaiiM nearly l.OOfhimtieH. and requires l ’."' j $12,000 per week. 4 'lullin is next in im to Paris, ; portaneo, and his pay-roll is equal to j $fj,000 |mt week. Entry clerks receive of the .*'>00; salesmen, $800 to $1,200. Home • I- forth of these, who s<dl on commiHaioii, make the con- til*ni $2,000 to $3,000, the cximmiiuioii rop. The la*iiig i $1,200. In every large con- i the In-ad Isiok-kcepcr, who confidence of the firm, and large salary, generally $2,."*4)0. who uw! the |k»ii, „ | It fron, tlio Olllrinl f,,,,,,- | & ed rapidly, and j On- • --t <-f levees in Eaiisiana from IMiii; to • p int( rc tail store. A Imlf-dozcn men are n linohstructerl I 1,ils l, ci u $10,074t,«X)«; yet with all that | . iii|*loyi'd to answer letters. Four men that r.-c!n.-.-.l | l " 1 " l,,.,,. i j ll “' I In fact the pres Amej the utni i litre- ) the Hu SSI'III 1 by* »t tail £he sailed nix gnes in twelve days, with ail sorts of In emUirnummcnta and stoppages. Heven I >- •lcgrces more .,f .training over «|ually sh-»rt parallel* would have carried lu r quite through land obstructions to the I sujjpo.sititiously oj>en Polar a on the ' longitude of Hitka and inid-Paciflc »'X|»edition was Eadv Franklin's E-t we can say of it is that it was in-1 fclligently and humanely directed that i'apt. Young brought home his vei*el and bis men. LATEST NEWS' SUMMARY. md <:x)>t'inl(!il, there still re- <»ity of u vast future outlay, lit M'-tein, desultory ami im- voidahly is, threatens to i*n- *f taxation upon the people toil, uitfioi the era I diamonds which the l of the judicial screw i ■CS Tweed worse off tka • last hoj>e for tl ; C of the Boss ii WEST. e thirteenth oensusof lo 1 I. hows a population, in Ci, and si nee 1870 of 117,1 e supreme court of Iowa rOHKIUX. llndstone avers that he will never in nsMiimc tin; liberal leadership in the I ltritisli parliament. j The sugar refinery of J. Hcdpath & Son, Montreal, will close next Monday on ae- eouiit of hard times. j Twenty-one persons were lost during , the post week by the wrecking of a French | s'-hooner on the const of France. General Doregarry, formerly one of the lost prominent of the furlist g< nerals, lias ••eii flapped in prison hv order of Don arloi. j It is rei*orte<l that sixty tons of small , irfii- nod ammunition for the Chinese was | shipp' d from I»ndon a- merchandise, and ; lamb d at Shanghnl. The British government I are investigating the matter. News res|»ecting the Turkish difficulty j in Herzegovina is very confiieting, and not i much to be trusted. One thing is clear, there ! i- s no cessation of the insurrection, nml, ac- i fording to present appearances, the irixurrcc- ! lionisUare iletermined t»> olitain a redress of ! their grievances before they lay down their arm'. There- i-. no doubt there is grave eausi-s j for complaint, and tlm «»oner the Turkish government applies itself to (lie ratification of these complaint*, the better will it prove I for itself. The end is „<,t yet. fill up bunk checks and to attend to fi- nnncoH. Alsait thirty are at the. hooka, steadily twisting and drawing ofTaceountH, and till tiiCN! are tinder the mastery of a chief accountant, whose salary is said fo Is; $1,000. A very large part of the wholesale domestic trade is done in the basement, which is very tin wholesome, and yet alxiut mxtv men are here most of the time. A clerk is at last a floating character. They shift from <#ie place to another, and generally get broken down early in life. It is a mystery what l>c- contes of that crowd of youth which every season flocks to the metropolis in pursuit of wealth, but it may lx* said that few ever reach suctcsh, and a very large pro* (xirtion go to ruin. This Ohkhnal “ Intervmjwkr.” — Madame Koyallwas a distinguished char- actor in Washington during the fourtli and fifth decades of the present century, being ti e widow of an army officer, tin author of a book and the editorofa news- j*a|*er. Madame Hoyulwasa short, plump little ls»dy, with a round duinpling-faee exceedingly sharp, piercing black eyes, end other features 0* correspond. On the approach of a session of congress, .'is soot as the members |x*gan to arrive, .Madann Koyall, wrapped in her immense shawl, with her snug little lionnet, fitting closely to her face, and tied trader her c ' with a long black riblxm, might lx; s walking briskly along the pavement her way to “interview" the newly-arrived niemlxT, to provide the matter for an itorial for the Huntress. To Mada Koyall is undoubtedly due the honor of the invention of this ingenious proce- for providing material, which has of lat< year- Iwen revived with brilliant flUCf ' -s a- an original di-coverv. FII.LIN'D T1IIJ4 DAI*. As the political init liegins to hoil and Imbhle, it hringrt vividly to my mind an incident of the last campaign in which 1 took a part. “oing naturally a vehement, as well as loqucnt ettss, I was much in demand with the “ speaker committee” in various iHirtionsoftlie state,especially where hard blows were wanted. It there was a forlorn hope, I was sure to he ealled on, and given to understand that the place was to he d for our “ party,” or ruin would lie the result. One day, towards the close of the cum'* paign, 1 received m ail frotU the chairman if thestate committee. Tht*re was another forlorn hope. The town of.Oowgrass had he carried in spite of all opposition, if e enemy were victorious m Cinvgrass ir jig was up. The t rain for there started at six o clock, and it now lacked only ten minutes ofthat hour. The depot was jiImuY? a mile away, the whole responsibility of success rested on me, 1 hailed a huckmati, and liifled the ros|M>nHibility tetn|H»rarily upon his shoulders. 1 shook a Pve-dollar hill at the driver, d lie put on all the speed that could he worried out of his horses. Luck was on side. I was just in Unto to hand ii dollar hill (by mistakoi of course, for |>oliticiiiiiHurc alwues lioiicst)uiid to make a dive after the train as it rushed out of tlu> depot. A brakemau snaked mo, losing his hat by the operation, and making me nay live dollars for it, anil without more than the mill number of mishaps, 1 tVas landed in good order at Umvgrass. The town is an important^ono for those who live iu it. There didn't appear to lie much excitement around till' depot, and I begun to have doubts ns to whether xpei'ted or not. It was dark, nml the heft of the town lay about a mile . ay from the railroad. 1 found a coach driver who had In forest ouglt iu “our party" to take me lo the It lenient for fitly cents, being that hr is just going that way, anil that was Ids regular business. He was a reticent, half mysterious old rooster, and I could got lmt little iuformatioti out of him re garding the situation. Have you heard that anybody was •cted here to H|*cnk to-night?” 1 ski'll. ! I did hear some- Wal, ’| thin* 'hoot it.’’ Where Is tlio hull?” Wo go putty nigh onto it. lie you milt up hero by the lie looked at me somowhrtt oddly, I thought, as ho gave thu rehi|v«n extra j(Tk. and'' his irff hUrso nt/ eftrfl touch with the whip. “ ft must ho nigh onto time you war thar,” lie muttered, jerking tlio reins again. " What time is tlm mooting called ?” “ I lull-past seven, I b'lirve.” “ Why, good gracious! it Height now.” “ Is it? Wal, I guess as how is is. < i it up, llohl Httre you ain't fast, mister?” “Fast! I wish I was faster, or that your horses were!” (Jit up, Hob,” was Ids only reply, .ftcr being bumped and jumped for about ten minutes more, tlio driver held i front of u little hull, A few half- grown lmys wore loitering uIhmiI the en trance, and everything was as quiet us a Quaker mooting.’ ‘Good heavens!” I exclaimed; “it is wonder they want a stirring up here, What is the matter?” Wal, kinder ilon't-eure-a dam, I guess. They want a regular overhauling and slinking up. Give it tew ’uni, mister!” ’ I tlm driver, Cracking his lazy horses and driving along. By gracious!” thought I, “won’t f stir the dry Ixines of Cowgrass, won’t 1?” Fully aroused to the importnucOm tlio occasion, I darted up-stairs into the hall, ms only a small affair; with, perhaps, hundred men and women quietly mbled there. They looked as though they were sleepy, and without, waiting n introduction, I resolved lo make ray to the platform and cornea little stage business mid George Francis Train at tlii-iii. I'd wake ’cia up. As I entered the room, the moderator tppeared to have just said someth ing and lien s.'it down. I darted tip the aisle, mounted the platform, threw inyhat ami rorcoat into a heap at the back of the lace, came to tin: front and exclaimed, Fellow-citizens!” amid tlm most intense icitouicnt. “ Fellow-citizens! why do we stand hero idle? Wlnit is it that tax-payers want? Whitt, would they have? Is life •ar, or pence so sweet, us to Imj bought at the price of chains ami slavery? Not I. n» “That’.-' right! Hoiihc,ye 4!owgrnssians! House, ye slaves! Get up and shake this political sloth from your bodies! You are dying with the potato-rut! Our ene mies, like potuto-lmgH, ire in our midst and are gnawing at oilr b it seed ends! The issue of this campaign is narrowed down to these four points ” “II beg pardon, ^ir,” put in the moderator, who had got up courage enough to s|M'jik, “ but this is not a |wdit- ical meeting!” “ I should say not! I should say that you were a set of old grandmothers, who ncverexiMwicnccdanyUiing more exciting than tiding a pinch of snuff! Hitt. I have been sent up here to shake yourdry and musty bones ; to show you wherein the danger, lies; to strip the mask from the face of our enemies, and knock their political harangues into u cocked-lmt! Bring me an opponent, bring mo the best, and see me snuff him him out and place the glittering rati of lilierty and of tri umph tijKiii the brow of our own parly !” “ But him out!” shouted two or three xybom I had roused. “Good! let me have opposition, for that will whet me for victory!” said I, while the moderator again approached. “ .Sir, you have evidently made a mis take. There is a political meeting being held on the other side of town. This is a church meeting, held to make arrange ments for giving our minister a dona tion!” The situation flashed upon me. Every thing confirmed it. f had put my foot into it the worst way. I seized my hat. and coat and rushed for the door. I caught one of those hoys who stood grin ning at me by the door as 1 went out, and, taking him by the corft-eollnr, I compelled him, on pain of instant mini- hilation, to run with me to the other hall, lie wanted fo live, and so went with me. 1 rushed into the hall. There was a noisy crowd, and I felt that I was right this’time, Httre. They were on tlio point of hustling out an old rooster who had bored them with a speech on being good to their pastors, ami who said the com mittee had sent him to speak. We com pared notes fur a moment. We had tuiu- taken anil got upon each other's stump, lie should have gone, to the donation eonfuh, and 1 should have E'en here, lie went and 1 stayed. 1 was fairly armiHcd and at once began to let off tnv rockets Tin. down the house, and it the two speakers from New York found out their mistakes, or both meetings would have been dead failures. NKW PARIS. Tlie Woiiili'iTtlMI«'cii|M‘nillY«> I'.iii'i'ith*** nf 1 have boon moflt impressed for these few days with the French facility of mending. It is wonderful. Itso chanced that in the year 1871 I passed a few hours in Paris,returning homeward from it hurried trip to Switzerland. It. was just after the city had been delivered from the deslolatiug sovereignty of the commune. The saddest of the sights was Paris then. On every side were evidences of the ilestruction which Frenchmen had dealt to their own chief city. The Tuieleries were a ghastly and almost still smoking ruin. The hotel de Ville, which had boon iierlmps the most sumptuous building in the world, was scattered and smashed into distorted heaps of blackened stones. The proud column of Vomlomc, wreathed aliout with the long record of the victories of the first Napoleon, was broken into mi- distinguishable bits, Its pedestal alone remaining. Matty oilier nubile build ings stood with staring window and halls des|x»llod by lire and blackened walls. Private houses iu every street were sway ing and tottering in various wreck. The fronts of those Htill standing were pitted from top to bottom with the Hears of shells and bullets, Tlm magnificent statues in the garden of the Tuilcrics, iu the wonderful Palace do la I'oncordo, and iu the public parks were, here head less, there armless, yonder legl the gates, where the fighting had been most severe, the scene of confusion indescribable. There was not a church which did not bear in broken windows and shattered columns and peeled nml tlm Prussians spured Paris, out of pity for tl'and out of reverence' fbri Its Itlige treasures of architect tire and art, French men t,hcmselvcH had set rioting through all its pleasant places. No description cun do justice to the imnii'iise destruc tion which French vandalism and French fury had wrought in their own beautiful capital. But what was Paris then you would searculy recognize as Paris now. I have been astonished beyond it teas Uro at the change. There is scarcely a trace of the ruin which had captured almost tlio entire city. True, the hotel do Ville has not yet completely risen from its ashes, lmt it is rising. 4'crtainly, you can see the rctitimtils of the storm which smote the Tnilories, lmt these blackened footprints are being rapidly effaced. The Column Veiulome towers again, with no trace of destruction left upon it, save only that the summit, on which stood the statue of Hie first Nannlcon, is empty; just now tlicso uuocr French people are in large doubt whom to place there. You would never know there had ever been a conflict in the streets by the look of them. The houses have been rebuilt. The wounded walls have been healed with skillful plaster and skillful stone. The statues have been so deftly patched you would never know they had over Ixteii touched by bullet. The oldgayoty flashes and resounds along the streets’. That singular recuperative energy of the French, seizing the future immediately, however had and disheart ening has been the past, concentrating the forces of the nation to the payment of the enormous war indemnity almost in a moment— that quick and indestruc tible and heroic spirit which no disaster can ever capture—has received no hotter expression and illustration than iu this sudden rebuilding of this marvelous city, almost as desolate a little time ago as was Jerusalem, when the Homans smote it and gave its temples to the flames. The CtirloHificH of Fever Inf'ccHon. Men of science speak of epidemic waves, and of scarlet fever being com municated by the few drops of milk which you pour into your ten, or the cream diffused in a dish of strawberries. On a lute occasion, at a fashionable dinner party in London, as many as eight or ten guests, and seven members of the house hold, took scarlet fever. Obviously, the infection must have been caught at the dinner party ; but how was the puzzling matter of inquiry, for no ono in the fam ily of the host was known to have been affected with the disorder. Was the dis ease brought to the house by a waiter? Was it conveyed in the table-linen from tlio washerwoman ? Was it somehow in corporated in the cream that had lieen used iu tlm dessert? An investigation on these and other joints, as we under stand, was made, but not with any satis factory result. The cream was thought to Ik: the most likely vehicle of infec tion ; but how could any one be certain on the point? The cream employed in fashionable dessert iu London is ixswibly made up of half a dozen creams from many dairies, and inquiry ends only vain conjecture. Itather a Itazardo thing, one would say, going out to dinner when you may run the chance of being | killed in a manner so very mysterious. I People, in their innocence, are not aware l of the manner iu which contagious dis- I eav:s may he communicated by public conveyances, by articles of dress, by ! dwellings, by the very atmosphere. We I have just heard an instance of the com munication of scarlet fever by means of a “kist,” the name usually given in Root- land to a servant’s trunk. A servant girl in Morayshire fell ill with scarlet fever and died. Her Hint, a painted wooden box, containing all Iter worldly goods, her later clothing included, was sent home to her il lations, and lay for some weeks at a station on the Speyffidc rail way before an opportunity occurred for fiundri removing it by a cart to Iter mother’s oottmw* among tlio hill. During this in terval the station master's children, in romping about, conducted their gambols on the kist, which was a repository of contagion, and in due course were struck down with scarlet fever. At length the fatal kist was conveyed lo Its destination, and the contents wero dispersed among friends and neighbors, '('lie donations wore kindly meant, but they proved fatal. No precautions hud been taken to disinfect the articles, the result being that wherever the clothes of the deceased girl were taken ill scarlet fever found Us victims. For several months the fever raged, until the wave of its Infec tion was expended. Now ensui'd a rc- markablo event. The outbreak proved to be an opposing barrier to the spread of a more virulent type of scarlatina advancing from another quarter at a litter period or the year. On reaching the lorntor scene of the disease, it was arrested for want of material to feed upon, a second attack being very unusual. ('hambcr'it Journal, X HI ANT TURK. One ol' flu* «‘ii 111'«» in I it <'iit-l»«llli'« l» Im> Niton ii n( (In* 4'ciilt'iiiilnl. There arrived in this city this morning front Ualifornia a curiosity for the cen- tonnial at 1'hiladclphia next year. It !h a section of one of the boss trees of the Golden HtntOf and is owned by and is iu charge of Mr. M. Vivian, aftil his sou Mr. T. Vivian, from whom we obtained some interesting particulars concerning The common name of this wonderful tree growth is the " Hig Tree,” ami the hutuuical name is m/uoui ijii/ualia. The tree from which this section was cut grew in tlui Kuwcnh and Kings river grove, near the line of Fronso and Tul are counties. California, on the west slopo of the Hierro Nevadan, at an eleva tion of six thousand live hundred feet ulsivu the level of tlio sett, forty-live miles from Visalia, the nearest railroad station. The age of tlio tree as indicated by the ly rings was about two thousand two tired and fitly years, the rings being n,. dost) on the outer edge that it was al most impossible to count them. The height was two hundred and Hoveuty-six feet. The diameter at the surface of the ground was twenty-six feet; ton feet above the ground the diameter was twenty feet; one hundred feet above the ground, where the first limb projects, the diameter is fourteen foot} and two hundred foot abovo the ground the di ameter was nine feet. It was perfectly sound and solid. Tito hark average one foot in thickness, and in come places it was .sixteen inchca thick. The hark ofsonio of this species of tree is three fei t thick. Tlio estimated utimher of lumber feet that it would make was three hundred and seventy- live thousand, and the number of cubic feet about thirty-one thousand, enough to make lumber and posts for sixteen miles of ordinary fence. The weight of the wood when first cut was seventy- two pounds per cubic foot, making the weight of the lumlter producing portion, two million two hundred and thirty- two pounds. It took two men, splendid uxmcii, ton day’s hard work to fell the tree, and when it fell it broke in several pieces, with a terrible crash. This section was taken from tlm tree ten feet above the ground to t wenty-six feet abovo tlio ground. The diameter at tlio huso is twenty feet. It was hollowed into a cylinder, and then cut into sections, making when put together the. body of the tree complete, the wood thus left 1m*- itig from six to eight inches thick, exclu sive of the Imrk. It cost five hundred dollars to cut it down and haul it to Vis alia, ami seven hundred there to Omaha, two fiat cars being used for its transpor tation. It leaves this evening for Ht. Etuis, where it will lie converted into a circular house, finished oil' very neatly on Hie interior, while tho outside will l>c left in its natural state. It will he ott exhibition for a time in that city, and tIll'll it will 1 m! sent to Philadelphia, whore it will he exhibited during the centennial. It will no doubt prove a great curiosity, and a successful financial venture for the Messrs. Vivian, the sole proprietors. Although an individual enterprise, this wonderful specimen of tree growth will bo one ol the best curi osities that California could send lo the centennial. The Dorinun Ocean. The German ocean or North sea, like the English channel, is supposed to have been once an inland plain or valley raised far ulxive tlio sea level. The sen has lmt recently invaded this pressing plain, submerged its forests, and super seded its river courses. The Imried trees of its sunken forests are still stand ing, rooted in their own vegetable soil, although beneath the waves. Cromer forest, which dips into the waters from the coast of Norfolk, is the most fatuous of the submerged forests of the German ocean. A t certain seasons, and especially after great storms, the stumps of oak, alder, yew, and Hcotch fir are seen stand ing upright iu tlio water. The condition of tlio wood and of tho fir cones (some of the latter obviously bitten by animals) tell us that Hit! sinking of tlie land hero occurred nt no distant js-riod iu the phys ical history of our country. The remains of laud animals, too, as well as of the forests they inhabited, are discovered in the lied of the German ocean. In his "Physical Geography <f Norfolk” Mr. Woodward tells us that iu less than fifteen years the fishermen of the village of Happishiirgh dredged op from their oyster i>ed ns many as two thousand teeth of mammoths. Hones and tusks of mammoths have also been fished up from these watery depths, takes us hack to the time when the Ei ropeim mainland, instead of terminating, as it does to-day, with the coast, of Nor way and France, st retehed far westward in the unbroken area beyond the. present coast of Ireland. These wero |tlie flour ishing days of the forests of oak, chest nut, alder and yew, which are now sub merged in the German ocean and tlie English channel. Thouohtkulnkhh for others, generos ity, modesty, and sulf-rcspect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady, iw distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that USEFUL KNOW!,KIMIM. It is always important lo know how to boose meat In buying. Ox lieef should ho of fino grain or fiber, the flesh of a bright red and firm; the fat white and distributed throughout the lean; it should list be yellow or semi-fluid. If tlie meat is entirely lean it will be tough nml its nutritive power low. Veal is dry if fresh, it should he close grained. If tiie meat is moist and flabby it is stale. Mutton should 1h> of u clear, deep pink tint, firm, and with a liberal supply of fat. Fine wether mutton may he recog nised by a small mass of fat on the upper part of the leg. It is more nutrition* than ordinary mutton, and iIn* darker tlio tint the finer the Haver. Pork should bo of a palo pink tint, and the fat very firm. If it is soft, or if the fat is yellow, the meat is had. If it is semi-fluid the animal has probably boon fed on flesh. Keeping Poultuy in OitniAitiw.— (Sonic farmers make it a practice to keep their poultry iu orchards from early spring until winter sets in, and find it ,'s lor so doing. A picket fence could Imilt around the orchard high enough to prevent their Hying over, with suitable house or shed in one eornor of tlie yard In shelter them at night. Thussiluatcd, the poultry will thrive and prosper, keep ing themselves in good condition, and the increase in eggs will he greatly aug mented, and their owners pleased on account of tho fiiyrlfids of Insects and worms they destroy, and which will more than ropav the cost of the building of the fences, lly keeping them inclosed in tills manner a large number of fowls may lie retained in mi orchard, and ll^con tinual scratching which is done bynhom II prove advantageous both to the soil mid trees themselves. Swallowing a Cent.—Dr. Gibbs, io of the editors of Hall's Journal of Health, who Is himself an educated physician mid surgeon, while on a rail road train the other flay, was consulted by one of the employes on tlio train in relation to his little hoy, who had that morning swallowed a edit. “ What have dnno for him?” asked the doctor, e gave him a dose of castor-oil,” was reply. "Good practice so far; as as you reach home givq him the whites of three raw eggs daily; let his diet lie bread and milk, and nothing ” The directions were followed faithfully, the whites of the eggs re pented every day, and the dose of oil at night; and on iho fourth day the cent was discharged. It was one of the now copper coins, mid considerably corroded by the act ion of the gastric juices. .Since falal results often follow the swallowing of a copper coin, tho judicious treatment ndviseif in this instance should be rcnicm- loyed bv all who Iiiiyc the euro of chil dren. The essential 'points to be borne in mind nro simply these : Albumen, nr tlie whites of eggs, a bland diet free from acids, and castor-nil, Hiiape-Treeh.—Many farmcrs.now sett bow they have mWd it b.v permitting the wholesale destruction of Ii*rest-trees upon their lands. From the imkednesa of tlio country droughts are becoming common. From the scarcity of timber- trees tho cost of fencing mid creeling buildings is annually increasing. But there is one way whereby amends may bo partly made. Let there he one united plan to have rows of bountiful anil use ful trees set mil on both sides of all our public highways. Let sugar-trees, wal nut-trees, chestnut-trees, locust-trees, silver-leafed poplar-trees, etc., stretch their long avenues in every direction all over the country. How It would relieve the nakedness of the land! What*a grateful shade they would give to the weary traveler! The value of farms would become almost immediately en hanced ns soon as those rows of beautiful i were planted out. And in the dis tant future, when those trees should arrive at maturity of growth, the value of the limber itself would become a most important item. Lot grangers and others take liold of this matter. An Anecdote of Jules Janfn. Nevertheless, ke had a keen eye to his mi interest, as the following story will show : When quite a young man a cer tain nelghls)r of Ills owed him fifty francs. One day when lie wont to ask for it lie found liis debtor iu great trouble. ‘ I mt pay you," groaned tlie man. " I have no money; I am ruined; in a few hours my landlord will distrain for his rout, mid carry away all I possess in the world." Jules' face fell, for his finances were very low just thou, .Suddenly mi. idea struck him. " You have a dozen or two of excellent wine in your cellar, you me the other day ; lot me have that and i will give you an acquittance fin* the fifty francs." “Impossible; the |>orterwill not let it pass out." "I will take my clianec of that if you will agree to my proposition.” The debtor did agree and the receipt was signed. An hour afterward a man in a workman's dress with his hat slouched over his eyes, appeared at the door with two wine-bns- keIs filled with’bottles. “I have eomo to change some wine that was seal in to Mods.- " (mentioning the debtor’s name) “tlio other day by mistake," ho says in a gruff voice. The porter, inno cent nml unsuspecting, shows Ihe way fo tho collar; the man deposits the bottle* he has brought, takes away those ho finds there, and goes oil his way rejoicing. The man was Jules Junin,and the bot tles he left behind were filled with very excellent—wat:r! — Temple liar. Aiiout eighteen miles from Port Gib* .sou, and one mile from Brandywine nprings, on the place of Mr. O’Quin, the existence of a great number of blocks of cut stone bus been known for nil in definite time, and the }>eople in the neighborhood have used them jib props for their houses. Mr. James Gage, Jr., went out tlmre a few days ago to explore, and had a specimen stone brought to town. It is About three feet lone by twenty inches square, resemblingin shop" a bar of soap. It is probably a iiniiv sandstone. Mr. Gage took this bloc! himself from beneuth the roots of a larg" pine tree. It formed a }>ortion of a wall ubout twenty feet broad on the top. which Mr. Gage traced fora distance of two hand rod and fifty yards. The infer cnee that ono would naturally draw from this superficial view is that this must have been a city wall, but deep explora tion might show it to be a portion of a fort, temple, or other build . ing. Anyway, its antiquity is probably immense, antedating the history of tin: red men,^-Port QUrnon Standard.